Digital Colonialism

Innovative, powerful, ruthless: the story of the unstoppable rise of the tech companies and their dominance over our globally connected world is one that has been told many times over. But there is always one chapter missing – the chapter about the bloody price paid by the global South. In their new book, tech expert Ingo Dachwitz and developer Sven Hilbig shed light on this blind spot. The story they tell is meticulously researched and compellingly told. The rise of the tech companies and their domination of the networked world has come at a high and bloody price. In countries such as Kenya and India, it is people who do the hard graft that lies behind social media and artificial intelligence. They extract the raw materials needed to manufacture our devices, and suffer the consequences of living under dictators with advanced technology at their fingertips. The superpowers China, Europe and the USA not only play this game, but even change the rules to suit their own interests. Digital politics has long since become geopolitics. In the struggle between the digital colonial powers, all that matters is victory – the global South is allowed to go to the wall.